Tonight's winning hand of Apples to Apples.

being a decent person is punk rock

Well, I couldn't get a handle on the day, so it's time to open and sort mail for three hours.

Woke up from a Backrooms-style dream at 4:15. Today is going to be something.

What a terrible thing. I know a lot of people are discovering or rediscovering her work right now; I really hope she knew that her work was important to those people, and to the world.

No. variety.com/2026/film/gl...

Spent half a team meeting listening to word salad about "the bots" today but held my tongue – other than saying "yeah" when my supervisor called me a skeptic. Please clap.

"CEO Ignacio] Ablornoz estimates that about 180 farms in #Nebraska are using Cattler technology in their operations." nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

"Introducing Microsoft Copilot Chat – Advancing AI at [department]" was not a subject line I ever wanted to see from the Chief Information Officer, but here we are.

Cold brew is unavailable until 7 a.m. and the barista asked if I wanted my Arnold Palmer "hot, iced, or blended" – only after the drink was served did I realize what they heard was "Autumn caramel."

because Jurassic Park is trans rep

Emergenetics profile on a cubicle wall... Lean Six Sigma titles in email signatures... do I work in the Void? Is my Office Space the Backrooms?

Skate hard, turn left! Or: Never go straight, go forward. 💞🛼

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💖

Good morning

"Her work was known for its emotional intelligence, rhythm, and humanity — a rare ability to find the truth of a scene and bring heart, momentum, and clarity to the screen." variety.com/2026/film/ne... #RIP

too late

Marius Mason has finally been released after seventeen years of a twenty-two year sentence! We're donating $2 to his re-entry solidarity fund for every item we sell at akpress.org in May. So far we're at $2432 (as of yesterday). Can you help us get to $3000 this weekend?

Amoeba (2025, Siyou Tan); Rebels of the Neon God (1992, Tsai Ming-liang); The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026, Jon Favreau); Kajillionaire (2020, Miranda July). #LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday

Learned MPOW is home to the personal archive of Sonny Rollins. Acquired in 2019, it "includes reel and cassette recordings of practice sessions, notes from recording sessions, personal photographs, sheet music with marginalia, diaries and other writings." www.jazztimes.com/blog/schombe... #archives

In today's hashtag-blessed news, I introduced new friends to Nanook, our office therapy dog (a darling white Swiss shepherd).

I was a Bailey Woods kid, but this story resonates with the former broadcaster in me.

that last nonfiction collection still losing the battle with reality. "what an indelible character!" well, that's because he's 12 people composited. "what a detail!" it's made up. "what command of facts!" every essay contains substantial errors, except the mccain one, which is just a press release

Louie the Lightning Bug has entered the chat. ⚡️

I talked to John Washington about his forthcoming book, How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention. John and I discuss the rapid expansion of ICE detention, including warehouses, and how communities can fight camps before and after they open.

"Can a policy holder be a baby?" is something a plan management administrator asked me. I mean, come on: a child born in 2024 cannot insure themselves. You shouldn't need my subject matter expertise there.

Photos from the IUPAT Local 1778 (Glaziers) strike against Spring Glass in Conroe, Texas. The boss has slow-walked bargaining for two years. (You can probably figure out why from the pictures.) The strike is still going, so if you're headed north out of Houston, stop by and offer some solidarity!

Sir Patrick Stewart as Leodegrance in Excalibur (1981). Alas, Joan of Arc was never knighted – but my honest answer here is Renée Jeanne Falconetti, Jane Wiedlin, and Milla Jovovich, in that order.

She could have at least run calling Prescribed Fire; it's all the rage around here.

I’ll be at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco this weekend! See some of you there, maybe! www.moadsf.org/engage-art-b...

Hell yeah, siblings. ✊🏻 #1U

As it turns out, we are the forces beyond our control – and we've no idea. youtube.com/watch?v=fCUD... #FilmSky

My unit manager and I have been working on a software change request that would automate a substantial portion of the lowest-level grinding in our workflow. It doesn't – for now – involve AI but requires input from and review by actual humans. But then, a couple weeks ago...

Thank you @evanurquhart.bsky.social for interviewing me The GoFundMe Comms team reached out on Friday asking for permission to share my story with journalists...and noone reached out Shows why trans led journalism is so important for getting our stories told 🏳️‍⚧️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-trans...

"The occasional bad night ... was a small price to pay for his willingness to take chances and his refusal to constantly play the same things the same way." ❤️‍🩹 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/a...

Still dreaming about deceased relatives and waking up in the middle of the night about it, so that's cool.

In chemistry, a supersaturated solution is one where you've kept adding a solute to a liquid beyond where the liquid can dissolve everything. All it takes is a nucleation site / seed crystal for the solution to rapidly (sometimes violently) crystalize. Unrelatedly, the US has more guns than people.

A wondrous performance by Alison Fierst. 💖 youtube.com/watch?v=SRdV...

The Blair Witch Project (1999) – in fact, it's the first DVD I ever bought. I watched it on my Graphite iMac DV SE.

Seated for The Mandalorian and Grogu.

Quote with a fictional band that isn't Spinal Tap.

We used to say, make congress live on the federal minimum wage and see how fast things change. But I say we instead make the minimum wage $174,000 a year because that's how much those crybabies are getting. Oh boo hoo, you gotta take bribes from lobbyists cuz you only $174,000, oh no, poor baby.

So much of the talk around this tech is framed as an advancement that can, does, and should negate consent. All this "it's not going anywhere so get used to it" or "it's here whether you like it or not" is ... not enticing. It's a leading indicator of something unsavory and unhealthy.

To me the anti-consent language is a leading indicator of the intent of those who would steer our culture whether we like it or not. It is to me an indicator of people who don't want to solve human problems in human systems, but who want to solve the problem OF humans in THEIR systems.

The Seattle Times published a full obituary for Juniper Blessing. It's a moving tribute to a life well-lived. May she rest in peace, and may UW honour and carry on her legacy. Scholarships named for her might be a good start.

Micronauts (d. 1980) Robotix (1984–1986)

The people who refused to allow Muslim people onto their political stages and who supported the bombing of Muslim-majority countries and who supported continuous civil rights violations against Muslim families are going to say “that ain’t mine” and frankly I do not think we should let them

Nobody is born Islamophobic. Islamophobic children are made and will continue to be made in a society that treats Islamophobia as a bipartisan norm and even sometimes social good. Islamaphobic children with access to guns are made possible by an Islamophobic society that loves guns.

what if we collided mid-air and our pilots all had to eject with parachutes as our hollowed out bodies crumbled and caught fire and fell to the ground to be spectacularly obliterated together

I inherited a betta named Sinatra who would swim up to greet me any time I was on his side of the room. A cool dude, a boon companion and (relatively) long-lived.